Guinness Premiership: Relegation – the right way to settle things

Mark Cueto has been describing the sense of dread that is in the Manchester air. Nowt to do with Rooney's ankle round his part of town, and everything to do with the fact that Sale are in deep do-does. They play Worcester on Friday night at Edgeley Park. Two points between the bottom three clubs. It's bicycle clips time.

Worcester are a fine club, so too all those down there. Quins and Northampton have survived relegation. But does that make it right? Are clubs holding back from developing young English talent and hiring gnarled old Kiwis and South Africans as a result ? Is the rugby all cramped and fearful, and is that why England play that way? I happen to think relegation is a good thing. You may see it differently.